Folks,

Blush for asking a newbie Template::Toolkit question! I am more looking for general pointers in the right direction, (I know there is always a pain barrier when getting my head around a new tool...)

As an e.g. in my playing around I want to: 

  [% uc(myvar) %]

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But the only way I have found to do this is: 
  [% use String %]
  [% String.new(myvar).upper() %]

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This is a trivial example - I can imagine that I will end up implement my own class with ALL my common view mutator - upper() lower() proper() escape() commify() etc

Yes, I know about HTML.escape() and I am sure that there are date classes with formatting mutators...

Is this what everyone else does? Is there a 'better way'?

Actually I am hoping for a 'Doh!' when you point out that these are all built-ins in TT and that I have not found the right docs!

I am reluctant to do this formatting in the Model components as I see it as part of rendering an HTML view (eg escape(). I also think it kind-of breaks the 'keep it easy for template tweakers' principle.

Many thanks for your pearls!

Jeff

In reply to Template::Toolkit - uc() and lc(), other simple formatting mutators - see TT Filters! by jaa

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